Re: What's the prerenderer do?

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>]

Le Tue, Mar 05, 2002, à 01:15:23PM -0600, Lars Clausen a écrit:

> > I mean standard font will be used for 7-bit characters like
> > ASCII and locale-specific font will be used for special
> > 8-bit characters.
>
> I see.  It's doable, but we would have to change font in the middle of a
> string, and also need to learn the locale-specific font from somewhere
> reasonable.

We already do switch encoding tables (which actually means "realised font"
for Postscript) on the fly in the middle of strings, if necessary. No
problem here.

        -- Cyrille

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